Reply to: RE>Biodiversity checklisting system
Not again! In reference to the posting by Stan Woods, Derek Gunn on
'Protoctista' v 'Protista', because you like Lynn Margulis is not a very good
basis for nomenclature. I like her too (I even have the same first name) but
I strongly suggest that you stick with 'Protista'. For the history of this
debate and the reasons, please see my paper "Protozoa, Protista, Protoctista:
What's in a Name?" (J. History of biology, vol. 22, pp. 277-305).
Lynn Rothschild
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